I then looked down and was startled to see a darkish, uncircumcised willy being waggled dry; its owner, relieving himself against the garden wall, quite unaware of my presence. … [A] horizontal strip of white tiles, with religious images, had been embedded, a little below penis-level, along the beach side of the garden wall; tiles with images of Shiva, Jesus, Koranic calligraphy, a Sikh guru, the Buddha and a Zoroastrian angel. But it hadn't really worked. The urinators simply passed along the wall to a spot where someone else's religious symbol had been placed.

Progressives are wrong to hypostatize their belief in mankind's eternal advance, and to disavow anything that does not fit this preordained vision.

Being exiled from the Nexus was a huge shock, I still can't believe Tann did that. But at least Sloane's watching out for us and giving us whatever land we want. We hope to make a life out here and we've got our very own lakeside property with a view.

, I.40: There is nothing I hate more than driving of bargaines: It is a meere commerce of dodging and impudencie.